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From Here to Modernity: BuildingsProduction team - from interactive

By The From Here To Modernity team (The Open University)

19 April 2007

Explore the most significant architecture of the Modern period, built from 1920 - 1999  Read more : From Here to Modernity: Buildings

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Kensal HouseCreative Commons Image stevecadman under CC-BY-SA licence

By The From Here To Modernity team (The Open University)

26 November 2001

For the first time, a modernist block was to be occupied by the working class, rather than the middle classes.  Read more : Kensal House

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Cumbernauld Town CentreCreative Commons Image I Like under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By The From Here To Modernity team (The Open University)

26 November 2001

The town which forms a backdrop to Gregory's Girl was intended to be a utopia.  Read more : Cumbernauld Town Centre

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By The From Here To Modernity team (The Open University)

26 November 2001

Fry brought a liberal tinge unusual amongst a socialist-leaning movement.  Read more : Maxwell Fry

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The Modernist Movement: Post Modernism (1979 - 1992)Creative Commons Image tttaaaooo under CC-BY-ND licence

By The From Here To Modernity team (The Open University)

26 November 2001

The comeback of Modernism would see the style moved on - into Post-Modernism.  Read more : The Modernist Movement: Post Modernism (1979 - 1992)

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By The From Here To Modernity team (The Open University)

26 November 2001

Was Prince Charles' model village more than a crusty throwback?  Read more : Poundbury

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Hunstanton SchoolCreative Commons Image Xavier de Jauréguiberry under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By The From Here To Modernity team (The Open University)

26 November 2001

Too hot in summer, too cold in winter - although acclaimed, this school suffered some fundamental problems.  Read more : Hunstanton School

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By The From Here To Modernity team (The Open University)

26 November 2001

His parents were missionaries - and some of their zeal can be seen in Coates' approach to architecture.  Read more : Wells Coates

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By The From Here To Modernity team (The Open University)

26 November 2001

Some suspect that the architect of the De La Warr Pavilion was never enitrely committed to Modernism...  Read more : Erich Mendelsohn

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The Lawn Road Flats (Isokon Building)Creative Commons Image stevecadman under CC-BY-SA licence

By The From Here To Modernity team (The Open University)

26 November 2001

In Hampstead, Wells Coates out-Corbusiered Corbusier.  Read more : The Lawn Road Flats (Isokon Building)

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I suspect this comes under 'more questions than answers' - but in the fromheretomodernity bit of this site, there's a throwaway bit of onformation which says that the Lawn Road Flats were owned by... Read more : The Lawn Road Flats (Isokon Building)

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